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Personal liberty laws

Free state legislatures enacted personal liberty laws in response to the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850. Laws typically guaranteed due process to freedom seekers and restricted the use of state resources to assist slave catchers. The statutes were a major source of legal and political controversy, fueling conflict between slave states and free…

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related to Bibliography · 106
Personal liberty laws → Adoption, America, American Political Thought, American Politics, Antebellum Michigan, Antebellum Ohio, Antislavery Constitutionalism, Athens, August, Baker, Battle Cry, Ben, Biography, Campbell, Case Western Reserve Law, Chapel Hill, Citadel Press, Civil War, Collier Books, Coming
related to Antislavery constitutionalism · 29
Personal liberty laws → Ableman, Alvan Stewart, As, At, Birney, Black, Booth, Chase, Chase's, Congress, Constitution, Due Process Clause, Fifth Amendment, Fugitive Slave Act, Garrisonian, James, Jason Ross, Liberty Party, Ohio, Ohio Liberty Party
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Personal liberty laws → American Civil War, Antebellum, Battle, During, February, Finkelman, Fort Sumter, Fourteenth Amendment, Free, Fugitive Slave Act, However, Hur, Hyun Hur, In, Jacobus, Moderate Republicans, More, Morris, Ohio Radical Republicans, Ohio's Radical Republicans
related to Antebellum, 1850–60 · 24
Personal liberty laws → Anthony Burns, Between, By, Compromise, Congress, Connecticut, Frederick Douglass, Fugitive Slave Act, Fugitive Slave Clause, Fugitive Slave Law, In, Maine, Margaret Garner, Massachusetts, Michigan, New England, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Rhode Island, The
related to Early Republic, 1780–1849 · 21
Personal liberty laws → Act, Article, Black, Congress, Following, Fugitive Slave Act, Fugitive Slave Clause, In, In Pennsylvania, Indiana General Assembly, Indiana Jonathan Jennings, Indiana Territory, Massachusetts, Northwest Ordinance, Northwest Territory, Pennsylvania, Prevent Manstealing, Supreme Court, The, The Massachusetts
related to Federalism · 18
Personal liberty laws → Black, Booth, Constitution, Enslavers, Fugitive Slave Act, Fugitive Slave Clause, In, In Ableman, In Prigg, Northern, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania's, Personal, State, Supreme Court, The, United States, Wisconsin

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